News and notes from around the interweb:
- The death of TripAdvisor Plus subscriptions it wasn’t a billion dollar business, after all (Skift)
- Long Beach artificially limits number of flights, congratulates self that there’s “always strong demand for flight slots.”
- American adding British Airways-style fuel surcharges onto Iberia awards was a glitch and they are working to address.
- TikTok rant on Airbnb’s asking guests to take out trash, run the dishwasher and do the laundry and.. pay a cleaning fee (HT: Hemal G.) Maybe they should pay Airbnb owner should pay the cleaning fee to the guest?
- Airbnb guest finds hidden camera in charger port in the bathroom. This stuff happens in hotels, too. Here’s how to spot them.
@brittany..walsh Found a hidden camera in our Airbnb bathroom and for some reason it got deleted so here it is again 🙄
- This is very cool. (HT: Astral Codex Ten)
This 1881 map is an amazing work that shows the travel time from London to… everywhere. Not only is it one of the first isochronic maps (marking distances that could be traveled in the same time) but it drew on steamship tables, post office records, and private voyage records. pic.twitter.com/zv5rO8QGZ4
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) January 8, 2022
Don’t be too sure of the felony conviction…. without a confession, the police have nothing. All the guy has to say is, “When I was getting the place ready for the guests, I had to take a shit and my phone was just about dead…. all I had with me to charge my phone (so I could play Angry Birds while dropping the kids off at the pool) was that camera/charger. I guess I forgot to take it with me…. my bad, but I didn’t intend to video anyone.”
Boom. Charges dismissed.
What do they say in court? Playing dumb is not an excuse.
Playing dumb is not an excuse, but unless the police can find pictures in possession of the owner, or a record of him having bought the camera, it’s not implausible to say that a previous guest left it behind or it was planted. Their future as a host is probably gone, but a criminal conviction requires a little more.
Does Hertz own Airbnb’s?
@Jorge – hahaha. Although … if Hertz owned Abnb, they would be probably be seeking arrest warrants for guests who canceled their reservations. And if Hertz followed this Abnb owners’ MO & hid cameras in all their rental cars, all the innocent Hertz customers accused of stealing them would have irrefutable evidence of the BS charges! lol
every idiot and their mother has to post everything on tiktok.
Jorge, good one.
Karl, if Hertz owned AirBnB, it would say that the guest stole the house.